Hi, this project is geared towards third party MediaWikis, and this is why
it is becoming more difficult for us to find a mentor among the usual
suspects (WMF employees, usually focusing in features relevant to Wikimedia
projects). If anybody here familiar with development of extensions wants to
volunteer as mentor, let me know. Questons? Just ask.
It is urgent -- see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014
Thank you.
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From: *Quim Gil* <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Subject: [Wikitech-l] GSoC proposal "Frontend for Vector skin CSS
customizations" (Ioannis Protonotarios)
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi, we are still welcoming mentors for this interesting proposal
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Ιωάννης Πρωτονοτάριος <
ioannis(a)protonotarios.eu> wrote:
> My proposal is the creation of a frontend that will help users with little
> or no experience at all to easily produce all the CSS needed to change
their
> wiki's layout.
>
> Full proposal wiki page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Protnet/Frontend_for_Vector_skin_CSS_cu…
The implementation proposed consists in MediaWiki extension depending on
the Vector skin. The plan sounds sensible and fitting with the discssion of
finding ways for 3rd party MediaWikis to differentiate from plain MediaWiki
and Wikimedia sites. The proposal also shows a good amount of original
thought and work.
We *might* get a secondary mentor from the WMF Design team to support the
UI work and also the possibilities of CSS customization options that
MediaWiki admins might be interested about. We miss a developer familiar
with MediaWiki extension developer. I'm not an expert, but this extension
looks relatively simple in terms of backend? It is an interface to
manipulate MediaWiki:Common.css.
Ideas for related bugs that can be assigned to Ioannis as microtasks are
also welcome. Just name existing bug reports requiring skills relevant to
this project.
Thank you.
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http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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Quim Gil
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[Sending this on behalf of the Knowledge Sharing Team at ConocoPhillips.]
The Knowledge Sharing team at ConocoPhillips is interested in hosting a Wiki Summit with a tentative date of June 4, 2014 (https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WikiSummit). The goal is to bring together individuals across industries who use a wiki to support Knowledge Management in their organization. At the summit, participants will share best practices, discuss the use of wikis in a corporate environment and walk away with specific initiatives to strengthen each of our wiki programs. The summit will focus on topics of concern – such as governance, structure, awareness and engagement.
Hosted at the main ConocoPhillips complex in Houston, lunch will be provided, and attendance is free. If needed, costs for transportation, room and board will be the responsibility of the participant.
Please complete the interest survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WikiSummit by March 7, 2014.
Please don’t hesitate to contact the organizer, Evita Hollis (Evita.D.Hollis(a)cop.com, 281.293.3662), or myself, if you have any questions. The Knowledge Sharing Team at ConocoPhillips looks forward to hearing what you have to say and hope that you will be able to join us for the Wiki Summit.
Mark.
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NicheWork LLC
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Dear semantic wiki users and developers,
Save the dates! SMWCon Spring 2014 will be held at Concordia University
this year in the vibrant and culturally-fascinating city of Montréal. We
are inviting you to submit your contributions to assemble the conference
program.
This twice-yearly conference brings together researchers, users, developers
and enthusiasts of Semantic MediaWiki and related projects, such as
Wikidata. Semantic MediaWiki is a family of extensions to the open-source
wiki software MediaWiki (best known for powering Wikipedia) that allow a
wiki to store structured data in addition to textual content, thereby,
turning a wiki into a flexible, collaborative knowledge repository.
As we are putting together themes and speakers of the upcoming conference,
we welcome new contributions from you on the applications and development
of semantic wikis (for a list of topics, see below). You can propose your
contributions on the conference website in form of regular talks, posters
or super-short lightning talks. All submitted proposals will be reviewed
and we will do our best to consider your proposal in the conference
program. If you've already announced your talk it's now time to expand its
description.
Please note that all tutorials and presentations will be video and audio
recorded and made available for others after the conference.
== Important Facts ==
* Dates: May 21st to 23rd 2014 (Wednesday to Friday)
* Location: Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
* Conference wiki page:
https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2014
* Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in
Semantic MediaWiki, e.g. users, developers, consultants, business
representatives and researchers.
== List of Topics ==
Here are some suggested starting points:
Specific applications:
* Applications in science
* Applications in business
* Other applications such as culture and personal wikis
* Open data and government-supported repositories
Concepts and development:
* Evolving semantic wikis into Linked Data platforms
* Text Mining and Natural Language Processing for Semantic Wikis
* Extending via PHP, Javascript and API-based extensions
* Widgets
* Interoperability and mashups
* Community building, feature wishlists and Semantic MediaWiki's roadmap
* Improving user experience
* Helping new and experienced users contribute
* Modelling complex domains
* Access control and security aspects
* Multi-lingual and cross-lingual sites
== Organizing Committee ==
* René Witte [General Chair]
* David Mason [Program Chair]
* Bahar Sateli [Local Chair]
== Sponsors ==
Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, Montréal,
Canada
Please circulate as appropriate. This announcement is available at
https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2014/Announcement
Hi everyone,
About a week ago, we had the (first-ever) enterprise MediaWiki hackathon in
New York City. That was something that had been discussed at least since
SMWCon last year in Berlin - although back then the plan was to have it in
Europe. Anyway, we had seven attendees altogether, and I thought it turned
out well; and if you're curious, I just wrote a blog post about it:
http://wikiworks.com/blog/2014/02/20/post-hackathon-thoughts/
-Yaron
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WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com
Good news :)
Yesterday we have published the BlueSpice (for MediaWiki) patch release 2.22.1<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bluespice/files> on sourceforge.net.
We have done a lot of bugfixing and worked on the visual editor and the browser compatibility of IE 8+
On our helpdesk you will find a detailed changelog<http://help.blue-spice.org/index.php/BlueSpice_2.22.1/Changelog>.
We recommend an update for all BlueSpice installations. And for installation please use installation manual<http://help.blue-spice.org/index.php/Installation_manual> of BlueSpice 2.22.0
Have a nice weekend!
Richard
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Hi!
Slightly late, but I still want to announce the transition of
Mediawiki4Intranet to 1.21 MW branch, happened 2014-01-14 (2014-01-31
for 1.21.5).
For those who aren't familiar with Mediawiki4Intranet (most people
aren't I think :)) -- it's a MediaWiki distribution suited for corporate
(«intranet») usage. It was created just as a bundle that we use in our
company; it includes 89 extensions, patched core and some maintenance
tools and configs.
Notable features available in the basic configuration are:
* Media features: PDF, TIFF, Dia, FLV/MP4, MP3, FreeMind/FreePlane
mindmaps, LaTeX, Graphviz, Gnuplot, UMLGraph, UMLet, PlantUML; SVG
rendering of Dia, LaTeX, Graphviz, Gnuplot; JavaScript editor for
uploaded SVG files (SVGEdit);
* Wiki-anything: Wiki-blogs, Wiki-forums, Wiki-polls, Wiki-quizzes,
Wiki-presentations and even Wiki-bookmarks :)
* Built-in permission system (IntraACL);
* Versioning features: Duplicator, PageSnapshots, massively improved
import/export engine;
* Screenshort upload (SupaMW); batch file upload (SWFUpload); Sphinx
search; TikaMW for indexing binary (msword, etc) file contents;
* Editing experience: WikiEditor, wikEd, wikifikator (mainly for
russian), autocomplete for page links and templates, in-place editing of
page sections, SimpleTable;
* Optimized SemanticMediaWiki;
* Many other features and parser extensions.
Mediawiki4Intranet is a «rolling-release»; it can be installed from a
tarball or using repo.php script for updatable deployment (faster than
git submodules or composer, allows simple creation of «derived»
distributions).
Installation instructions are here:
https://github.com/mediawiki4intranet/configs and here:
http://wiki.4intra.net/Mediawiki4Intranet
Also I would appreciate any feedback and/or assistance in adding new
features to the distribution and/or help on "upstreaming" any patches,
for example the big import/export one; of course, if anyone is
interested :-).
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With best regards,
Vitaliy Filippov
Hi,
Here is something that's potentially of interest to everyone on this list:
the (I think) first-ever enterprise MediaWiki hackathon, to be hold next
month in New York City, Thursday-Friday, February 13-14:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NYC_Enterprise_MediaWiki_Hackathon
I apologize for the late planning on this - and the fact that it coincides
with Valentine's Day - but hopefully at least some people who want to get
into enterprise MediaWiki development, or work on improving (and hopefully
releasing) their existing MediaWiki extensions and software, can make it.
If you're interested, please sign up on the page.
-Yaron
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